PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY STATEMENT

SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION? When you make a purchase from our store, we gather personal details you provide, such as your name, address, and email, to process your transaction. Additionally, when you browse our store, your computer’s IP address is automatically collected to help us understand your browser and operating system.

Email marketing (if applicable): With your consent, we may send you emails about our store, new products, and updates.

Text marketing (if applicable): By subscribing to text notifications, you agree to receive automated marketing messages at the provided phone number. Consent is not a condition for purchase. Reply STOP to unsubscribe or HELP for assistance. Message and data rates may apply.

SECTION 2 - CONSENT How do you get my consent? When you provide personal information for activities like completing a transaction, verifying your credit card, placing an order, arranging delivery, or returning a purchase, we consider it as your consent for collecting and using it for that specific purpose. For any secondary purposes, such as marketing, we will either seek your explicit consent directly or give you the option to decline.  How do I withdraw my consent? If you decide to change your mind after opting in, you can withdraw your consent for us to contact you or for the continued collection, use, or disclosure of your information at any time. To do so, please contact us at skyscrapersandtrees@yahoo.com or mail us at:

Skyscrapers and Trees
4101 McEwen Rd. #525
Dallas, TX 75244

SECTION 3 - DISCLOSURE We may share your personal information if mandated by law or if you breach our Terms of Service.

SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY Our store operates on Shopify Inc., which provides the online e-commerce platform enabling us to sell our products and services to you. Shopify stores your data through its data storage, databases, and general application on a secure server behind a firewall.  Payment: When you use a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, Shopify stores your credit card data. This information is encrypted according to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your transaction data is retained only for the duration needed to complete your purchase and is deleted afterward. All direct payment gateways comply with PCI-DSS standards, overseen by the PCI Security Standards Council—a collaboration among brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. These standards ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.  For more details, please refer to Shopify’s Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).

SECTION 5 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES In general, our third-party providers will only collect, use, and disclose your information as needed to perform the services they provide to us. However, specific third-party providers, such as payment gateways and transaction processors, have their own privacy policies regarding the information we must provide for purchase-related transactions. We advise you to review their privacy policies to understand how your personal information will be handled by these providers.

Please note that some providers may be located in, or have facilities in, different jurisdictions than you or us. If you proceed with a transaction involving a third-party provider, your information may be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction where that provider or its facilities are located. For example, if you are in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway in the United States, your personal information used for the transaction may be subject to U.S. laws, including the Patriot Act.

Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party site or application, our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service no longer apply. Text messaging opt-in data and consent are excluded from this and will not be shared with any third parties. 

Links:  When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

SECTION 6 - SECURITY To safeguard your personal information, we implement reasonable precautions and adhere to industry best practices to ensure it is not lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed inappropriately. When you provide us with your credit card details, we encrypt this information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and store it with AES-256 encryption. While no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, we comply with all PCI-DSS requirements and follow additional widely accepted industry standards.

SECTION 7 - COOKIES 

List of Cookies We Use

We provide this list of cookies so you can decide whether to opt out of them.

• _session_id: Unique token, session-based. Allows Shopify to store information about your session (e.g., referrer, landing page).
• _shopify_visit: No data held, persists for 30 minutes from the last visit. Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits.
• _shopify_uniq: No data held, expires at midnight (relative to the visitor) the next day. Counts the number of visits to the store by a single customer.
• cart: Unique token, persists for 2 weeks. Stores information about the contents of your cart.
• _secure_session_id: Unique token, session-based.
• storefront_digest: Unique token, indefinite. If the store has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

We also use cookies to keep track of items added to your shopping cart, including when you abandon your cart. This information helps us determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS.

SECTION 8 - AGE OF CONSENT By using this site, you confirm that you are either the age of majority in your state or province of residence or have reached the age of majority and have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

SECTION 9 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time, so please check it regularly. Any changes or clarifications will be effective immediately upon posting on the website. If we make significant changes to this policy, we will notify you here to ensure you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it. In the event our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so we can continue to provide products to you.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at skyscrapersandtrees@yahoo.com or by mail at Skyscrapers and Trees [Re: Privacy Compliance Officer] 4101 McEwen Rd. #525 Dallas, 75244